Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech

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Yet, unlike typical exhibits, there is barely any signage accompanying the pieces, as if inviting viewers to be a “ tourist or a purist,” a point of view that Abloh employed during his design process. There is still the striped dress Abloh created for Beyoncé’s 2018 Vogue cover shoot (it didn’t appear in the magazine). That journey is essentially what we’re putting on display here so that kids coming to the city have a reflection of what they see in the outside world in a different context,” he says. This catalog covers the last fifteen years of Virgil Abloh’s career, including an in-depth analysis of his work and inspiration.

Abloh has launched an organic platform for widespread access to information and mentorship through his Post Modern Initiative with the aim of the betterment of all- access knowledge.Depending on how much you know about Abloh, or whether you want to consult the brochure the museum hands you upon entry or make your own assumptions about the items displayed, you can land in either of the camps. The show — loosely broken into sections like architecture, music, design, and fashion — still holds the clothing racks full of pieces from Abloh’s first fashion venture, Pyrex Vision, and the Milan-based label that he founded in 2013, Off-White. In 2013, Abloh founded his stand-alone fashion brand Off-White™ in Milan, Italy, and, in 2018, assumed the position of artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear.

The catalogue section offers an overview of Abloh's interdisciplinary practice by Michael Darling and features essays and interviews with key voices in art, fashion, design, and architecture, including Taiye Selasi, Lou Stoppard, Michael Rock, Samir Bantal, Rem Koolhaas, and Anja Aronowsky Cronberg. Near these tables is a model of Chicago – Abloh's hometown – with a proposed skyscraper based on Abloh's master's thesis in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2003. Anytime an idea hits a particular surface; a photo print, a screen, a billboard or canvas, it seems like fact.The artists bonded over their mutual disappointment in the film and created this jacket in playful protest. This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the designer himself, accompanies his acclaimed landmark 2019-23 touring exhibition and offers in-depth analysis of his career and his inspirations.